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I think this is going to be a bail. It‘s not bad, but it leans really heavily on a pet peeve of mine, which is when characters who were once close reunite after several years and interact like they were never apart. I also really dislike Julia Whelan‘s dopey male character voice, so I‘m just more annoyed than anything. This is the rare book that might be better in print for me.

Read that book it took me two months to finish it.

Funny and thought provoking, a powerful novel of friendship and quantum mechanics.

#12booksof2024
Big thank you to @Andrew65 for hosting again this year!

This is my 3rd by TJR and, wow, I love her writing! Very creative, and very exciting stories! I didn‘t think a parallel universe romance could be so rich and complex. I loved the friendship, multiple timelines, and the dog.
Read if you like Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, TJR, quantum mechanics science fiction, or found family.
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🐈 Picture taken Friday while waiting for takeout

My sister and I are buddy reading this book and she‘s a faster reader than me. She texted me a few days ago and said Let me know when you get to p. 200! and yesterday while in line at the post office I did. I think I guffawed. I know I choked back laughter and had tears streaming down my face! I had to get a picture to let her know I got there in the most inconvenient place! (It‘s R-rated!) 😆

The joys of a good buddy read!

💙ing the book btw.

Loved this book and the idea of the two parallel realities. Having lost the love of my life, my better half, my soul mate last year the final line of this book left me bawling at my desk at work. So so good. All the stars for this author, this book, and this #audiobook narrator!

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"Sometimes I think my mom's anecdotes should come with Cliff notes because they're quite good once someone explains them to you." ???

At first I found it tiring jumping back and forth between two storylines, but as they progressed and I got more invested in both, it wasn‘t such a bother.

#withdualtimeline
#aboutabook

#AboutABook #WithDualTimeline
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Just wonderful.
I love stories about parallel universes. I enjoyed his almost as much as "The Midnight Library". Once again, TJR proves she can write literally anything.

“You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you'll never make them again.”

#2ndChanceRomance

#SpringSkies

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Checked into an hôtel yesterday, nice breakfast and now i sort of do not want to move from the nice lourging chair.

2024: 3
Not my favorite of hers and definitely not up there with her best but it'd do for a flight/vacation type read.

7/10
Another page turner from TJR with the alternating chapters for each scenario! However, I cannot rate this book much higher than I did because the ending fell short for me, as heartwarming as it was, because I was left feeling a tad incomplete/unfinished. Although, I‘ll say the book did have me pondering how much truly is up to fate and how our choices effect our future endeavors. So it was extremely provoking in that sense which I enjoyed!

A very unique way of writing a book to be sure, only other book I can compare it to is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, but I love love love that some of the storylines match up for an assumed HEA.

You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you‘ll never make them again.

I love Taylor Jenkins Reid books! This one was soooooo good!!!

Emma will have 2 different love experiences in two different multiuniverse, she will live in accordance with her fate and choice. Some persons will be a “constant” in each multiuniverse . At the end end of the audiobook, author explained the concept of multiuniverse which she believes exist & why she doesn‘t believe in soulmate but in choices. As she said to her husband: my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn‘t end up with you”⬇️

Hannah, a girl in her late 20s, is completely clueless about what to do with her life. She's just moved back to her home town after a failed relationship in New York. She's about to rekindle an old flame, when she finds herself at a crossroads, and the two possible decisions would result in very different paths for her. The book explores both paths in alternating chapters. ⬇️

Can the choice between whether to stay out or go home change the course of your life? For Hannah it does, as shown in alternating chapters of this book. Is life about chance or fate? I was a little skeptical about whether or not this premise would try my patience but I thought it was well done and I couldn‘t wait to see where each version of Hannah‘s life journey would lead. #authoramonth

Another very enjoyable book written by Taylor Jenkins Reid #AuthorAMonth, although I don‘t think it was as enjoyable as the others I have read by her. A young woman moves back to LA where we see a split and follow her dual timelines following a key decision she made. Could she find a true love in both? Would it be the same person if she did? Should she marry her teenage sweetheart?
3rd book finished for #AuthorAMonth & #BacklistReadathon

On to my next (3rd) read for #AuthorAMonth, and my third book for #BacklistReadathon @Soubhiville @Clwojick @TheAromaOfBooks

Loved all her books so far, but only one more of hers to read after this one.

My #weekendreading plan.
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD #AuthorAMonth #BookSpinBingo #SeriesLove2023 #TrappedonanIsland #Loveathon #nobuy2023

Having read all of TJR‘s most recent novels, I searched her back list for something new to me for #authoramonth2023. This premise sounded interesting, if a little “light” for my tastes. I didn‘t identify with the main character at all and generally don‘t enjoy romance, but I did appreciate the clever way TJR interwove two alternate realities. So, not a high pick, but also not a complete waste of time!

@Soubhiville

#AAM This was a sweet romance about fate, destiny and all the what if‘s - told in alternating chapters we glimpse the two paths that 29 year old Hannah Martin will journey, living out the consequences of her actions in parallel universes. And though her paths diverge maybe she gets exactly what was meant to be all along.

This was a “sliding doors” type of dual story that splits when Hannah has just moved back to LA and decides to stay at a bar and hang out with her ex or not. The way it all splits and comes together is very interesting.
#AuthoraMonth @Soubhiville

When I picked this up, I was expecting something like Evelyn Hugo or Daisy Jones or Malibu Rising. It was not like any of those. It has a singularly different style and tone. That said, it was a fun read, and I recommend it to fans of TJR.

What an interesting book! We follow one woman as she lives her life making big decisions. We follow 2 paths based on those decisions. Which path is better? How different is her life with these decisions? I enjoyed this book and when I thought one path was better something happened to change my mind.

I started reading “Maybe In Another Life” by Taylor Jenkins Reid. So far it‘s not quite what I was hoping for. The romance between the protagonist & her love interest seems juvenile for characters who are supposed to be nearing their 30s. It lacks an emotional complexity that I was expecting. The dialogue seems more fitting for teens, however there was a surprise in the beginning that I did not see coming, so there‘s that! 📚 #maybeinanotherlife

Book 46 for 2022 done. This one was my least favorite of TJR, still good but but not my favorite, would be the last book I would recommend for TJR.

Have been MIA from here lately (have not been reading that much this year), but I am back!

And I simply LOVED this book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I LOVE TJR novels and this one is wonderful. I can‘t fit my review in just 451 spaces, so the rest is in the comments!!! Book #44 in 2022

Book 78

I listened to Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I wasn't a fan of her interview-style books, but this was very engaging. Hannah moves back to LA and has dinner with friends. At the end of the night, she has to choose between going home with her best friend or her ex-boyfriend. The book proceeds with alternating chapters of two storylines, following the effects of each path. It was an enjoyable listen. 4 🌟s

Read so fast

Not bad , not great an easy read , prefer TJR‘s later works as other reviewers have said very sliding doors

Rainy day in Spain #holidayreads

7️⃣ I loved Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo, both by TJR, so far this one doesn‘t feel as dramatic as Evelyn Hugo but I do care about the main character and I am interested to see how things turn out. Once again, can‘t put it down, which seems to be a theme with TJR‘s books #taylorjenkinsreid #maybeinanotherlife #kindleread

https://youtu.be/fywkqyFXL9U

A playlist of all episodes in the Bite-sized Book Chat series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf

Chat #1: with Kezia from Ohio

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

“Maybe all of this time,” I say to Ethan, “I‘ve been looking for home and not realizing that home is where the cinnamon roll is.”
Ethan laughs. “I mean, if you‘re going to go all over the country looking for where you belong, I could have told you years ago you belong in front of a cinnamon roll.”

Book 50

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Hair buns and cinnamon rolls!! This book is full of both!! And it really made me want a cinnamon roll only because it mentions them like 500 times🤣...BUT...I really did love this book!!

Apparently I‘m deep in to Taylor Jenkins Reid this month.

As always she does no wrong. This wasn‘t my favorite of hers because it took me a little time to get used to the timeline jumping but overall still very good.

Checking off my #bookspinbingo

Sliding Door plot where the story jumps between alternate timelines based on Hannah‘s decision on whether to go home with an ex one night or not. If the multiverse exists, how different are your lives? Are some things constant in each?
Didn‘t love this one as much as the last 2 books of hers that I‘ve read, just wasn‘t as invested in the characters, but still a good read.

#Destiny
#ConflictedWorlds

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Really interesting premise to this story. A look at how the results of a simple everyday decision can send your life down a different path. The story alternates between two possible parallel lives that unfold based on a decision that the main character makes about whether or not to go home with an old boyfriend she meets in a bar. This is lighter reading that deals with a contemplative topic. Good summer reading!🐚